This is an analysis of the poem Negotiations with a Volcano that begins with:
We will call you "Agua" like the rivers and cool jugs.
We will persuade the clouds to nestle around your neck...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXaXacX XaaXXXX XXXad eceedbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,5,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101110001010111 1001010100111 11111 11010011010 10101111001 111011011010011 10110100101 101001101010010 010001001101011 1101111100111100 110111100101110 101001000111 011010110101 10111111111 11011 001100001110111 10111101101 1111101 10101011101 101101101001010 1111011011101 111110 1101111101 110100011 1110101 01000111 1111111 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 320
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, you, of, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, please are repeated.
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